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1. Detachment In The State Of One Striving For Liberation
Just as the Sadhaka who has acquired knowledge of the self, travels on the path of liberation, the same way one who desires detachment also
travels on the path of liberation with the help from true saints. He
regularly propitiates right faith. He can accelerate his pace of
progress on the path of liberation when he remains in association
with an inspiring and highly enlightened preceptor. In this
association, he is induced to practice nonattachment, remains
active, and is regular in devotion and self-study.
He sub- dues his miseries and enhances
his divine love for gods, spiritual masters, and religion. Such a
Sadhaka spends more time in the company of the noble and the virtu-
ous aspirants. He spends less time at his job, business, family, and
bodily requirements.
Furthermore, by developing moderation,
contentment, simplicity, impartiality, humility, the practice of
equal regard for all life, love and acknowledgement of virtues,
regular food-habits, and allied virtues in life, he contemplates
deeply on sublime teachings and practices the discrimination of the
self and the non-self and thus tries to practice self-repose and
meditation.
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